Flexibility to focus on what matters When Susan Bevins and her husband moved to Southern California in the early 1980s, they found the restaurant scene disappointing. “It was all chains,” she recalls. They took matters into their own hands and opened an Italian restaurant inspired by the mom and pop eateries on Mulberry Street in New Y ork’s Little Italy. In 2016, they sold the restaurant to their son, Brandon. Susan went back to school to get her accounting degree and is now the bookkeeper. Paychex wasn’t flexible at all This is a family-owned business, and it’s very labor-intensive because we operate with a skeleton crew. We’re open seven days a week. I get here at 8:00 a.m. and the bar closes at 2:00 a.m. My son works about 100 hours a week. We just don’t have a lot of extr

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